Word: skillfully
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...Metropolitan Museum through June 22, is the kind of show that one hopes to see in a great encyclopedic institution like the Met. It is not, in the common show-biz sense, a blockbuster. It takes a fascinating but unfamiliar subject and handles it with immense art- historical skill. It enlarges one's sense of civilization...
Prisoners find their new jobs valuable not only as a source of income but as a way to develop a skill that could lead to future employment on the outside. Keith Rogers, 21, was convicted of robbery in 1982 and the following year began serving a three-year sentence at the Ventura School in Camarillo, Calif., a correctional institution for youthful offenders. In February he was one of 24 inmates who began taking phone reservations for TWA through a switchboard hooked up to three trailers at Ventura. Says Rogers: "This opportunity makes my future a little bit brighter. It gives...
...within a year. If some right-wing general or politician had done this, there would have been screams of protest everywhere. As it is, Aquino's pledge of her democratic good intentions is taken at face value, and it should be. But her intentions are not the issue; her skill and strength are. The Philippines is such a faction-ridden, contentious country that the return to, or advance toward, democracy is likely to be slow and halting at best. At worst, the end could be another dictatorship...
...costly positive actions needed to promote democracy: careful involvement with local opposition groups, behind-the-scenes diplomatic maneuvers and, occasionally, military pressure. The U.S. has sometimes tried to encourage and work with prodemocratic political organizations, open or covert, in other countries, but it has not been particularly successful or skillful in this effort. We must understand that the most important task usually does not end but only begins with the overthrow of a dictator. In the wake of the Falklands defeat, Argentina got rid of its ruling generals, and as far as many Americans were concerned, that...
...definition states that one must pay something of value to play, chance has to predominate over skill, and one must be playing for the eventual gain of something valuable, McDavitt said...